Welcome to the world Elsie! And congratulations to Natalie, Joel and big brother Ernie!

It was so special to meet Elsie at eleven days old and spend a few hours with the Guy family capturing them as a new family of four - she was such a little dream and Ernie is clearly going to be an absolutely wonderful and proud big brother.

I really do love family shoots at home and this is why.. it was so lovely to do some family/bump photos with Anna, Scott and Isabelle with baby number two a week away from their due date. Anna wanted some really relaxed and natural photos at home while they were a family of three and it was a lovely time to capture with them all. Here are a few favourites.. watch this space for another family shoot with baby number two soon!

Family photography at home is one of my favourite settings for pictures.. there’s such beauty in the everyday and I love capturing these ‘normal’ but special moments in time. I spent some time this morning with Emma, Brent and Nieve at their home for some relaxed family photographs.

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour or so with the Riley family. As soon as I got the the door Toby shouted “Sally’s here!” and went on to show me around their home while we took some relaxed family photos, together with his Mum, Dad and baby sister Violet. It was a lovely sunny day and just about warm enough to get outside for a few photos too.

It was so special to visit Leah and Sam at home and to be there to capture some photographs of Zachary at seven weeks old. These three were a pleasure to spend an hour or so with - such a calm and peaceful house, and at the point where, a few weeks in, they’d really hit their stride and was bossing being new parents.

Another 2018 review for you all today, but today it’s all about family shoots!

I’ve really come to love family shoots over the past few years, and I’m lucky enough to sometimes shoot the same families again and again which feels all kinds of wonderful. Sometimes it happens where I’ve shot a couples’ wedding and they go on to start a family, and I can be there to document the next chapter too!